While the bare clip might be slightly nicer, I don’t think Lumintop’s decision to go with a black clip is enough to punt it back and hold up production.
As long as the light works and the driver fit issue was corrected, it might as well go into production as-is.
’Maybe’ your right and it is painted Black. I am still going with a lighting anomaly.
But I will say this, if it is paint; it appears to be a very poorly done job. There is still a lot of silver visible.
You can start with either side of your ‘red arrow point’ & then go right on to the edge of the clip to see silver.
If whoever orginally posted this picture would chime in, the mystery could be certainly solved……
In general, white and black are just the same color at different brightness levels. A white reflection on a black clip doesn’t mean there’s silver showing through.
The pic makes it look like the clip is painted black, but the pic was also taken by a potato cam. We might not know for sure until items arrive for testing.
I hope you are right.
This clip with the extra hole is from the first prototype.
Maybe they add a black o-ring underneath to avoid this clip version to spin and wobble on the production sample, because they were short of the latest clip.
I won’t speculate more, time will tell. Sorry for the disruption.
Honestly, I ’hope’ I’m right to. “Hope” being the key word.
For the life of me I just cannot understand why they would suddenly change to a painted clip. :person_facepalming:
But, I do realize; stranger things have happened.
Take care Tally-ho… I guess we will find out before long.
I much prefer the clip tip with no hole. The hole makes it look cheap, IMO, unless they were to press fit a stainless or ceramic ball into it. A raw, brushed finish is what I think would look nicest on the clip (well,expensive coatings live DLC or PVD also). The painted black will look terrible after a day or two of carry.
I much prefer not having to read post after post that is “Much Ado About Nothing”.
It is going to be a fantastic light at an unbelievably low price.
It is essentially a done deal now and is in the hands of very competent BLF and TLF Team members.
Each one of us has a choice when it becomes available…if you like it, you buy it. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it and move on.
’Nuf said.